Re: SPEC: I. cretensis
- Subject: Re: SPEC: I. cretensis
- From: J* C*
- Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 17:38:43 PST
From: "Jan Clark" <janclarx@hotmail.com>
><< I had good success moistening the dry stigmatic lips with saliva,
before
> pollenating, during a heat spell last November. Previous heat spells,
I
> was getting no pods at all, and the saliva moistened ones almost all
> took. >>
>
>Return the moisture to dehydrated pollen. Great tip. One I had never
considered. Thanks >Betty from Bowling Green
It actually returns the moisture to the dehydrated stigmatic lip. The
other way, suggested by Sharon McAllister, was to crush, or squeeze a
fresh stigmatic lip against the one you are trying to pollenate. This is
OK if you have one.
I had 75 seeds from two pods from Supreme Sultan, so I got fairly good
pollenation using this method, when I had been failing miserably with
all the dry stigmas.
Cheers, Jan
------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe from this mailing list, or to change your subscription
to digest, go to the ONElist web site, at http://www.onelist.com and
select the User Center link from the menu bar on the left.
